LETTER: Media too quick to say Vietnam veteran’

Wednesday

Feb 27, 2013 at 6:00 AM

There was an Associated Press article recently about a man accused of killing a bus driver and abducting a 5-year-old boy (“Ala. police tread carefully in case of young hostage,” Telegram & Gazette, Feb. 2).

He was a Vietnam-era veteran.

It really irritates me that every time someone does something bad, the newspapers all over the country have to say the word “Vietnam.” He was not a Vietnam veteran. He was just a man who was in the service during the Vietnam War.

If he had tackled a bank robber coming out of a bank, nobody would even know he was a veteran at all.

I think all Vietnam veterans have suffered enough — that the country turned their backs on us — without any more negative articles.